ccminer for OSX

Please Note: I am no longer actively updating the CudaMiner and ccMiner utilities for OS X. These pages are being kept for posterity, but will no longer be updated.

The last builds of the utilities were compiled with the CUDA Toolkit 6.0. As newer versions of the CUDA Toolkit are released, you have a couple of options if you wish to keep using these utilities:

Keep using the 6.0 version. So far, there really haven’t been any benefits to updating to 6.5.

Create a symlink to the new version as follows:

You can create a symlink so that the program can still find the files it needs. Open Terminal (Applications > Utilities) and do the following:

sudo ln -s /Developer/NVIDIA/CUDA-6.5 /Developer/NVIDIA/CUDA-6.0

You will be prompted for your password.

The above command will create a “fake” CUDA-6.0 directory that is actually a pointer to CUDA-6.5.

ccminer is a command-line crypto-coin miner for Nvidia GPUs developed by Christian Buchner (cbuchner1) and Christian H. ccminer supports many of the alt-coins that do not use the scrypt or SHA256d algorithms. These include HeavyCoin, FugueCoin, Groestlcoin, QuarkCoin, X11, and X13. If you are looking for the scrypt command-line miner for Nvidia GPUs, see CudaMiner.

Hi John! Thank you for your work, i have to ask you something. Someone on bitcointalk posted a compiled version of ccminer 1.0 compatible with compute 2.0 to mine x11, i have a gtx560se that hashes at 1mh/s with this miner, the question is, since im using a hackintosh, i use Mac OS the whole day, could it be possible to compile this same thing for Mac? here is the link of the miner im using https://mega.co.nz/#!gBlGVZbT!0Pxo_T1P89UWmC866NVFIwEd3MJaAfRsdO8L5p4uvz0

Hi John, i posted a comment a few hours ago, but maybe it never got posted bc it had a link (?) anyways, first of all, thanks for your work, i was trying to tell you, i want to mine x11 with version 1.0, but my card is a evga gtx560, which is compute 2.1 and it has been dropped on this version. Someone posted on bitcointalk this same ccminer 1.0 compiled with support for compute 2.1, and it works perfect, my gtx560 hashes at 1mh/s, the only problem is that this is only for Windows. Since im on a hackintosh, i work on Mac OS (10.9.2) the whole day, could it be possible to compile this ccminer 1.0 with x11 algo support and compute 2.1? thank you in advance!

It would seem that there is a NEW, improved build of ccminer 1.0 with better performance for X11, newer than the May 10 build. Please, is there any chance that you could compile it and post it? Thanks!

Hi John, great work. I too though am desperate to be using the new X11 code. I feel like I got pretty far into the process, but when I run make it fails because I don’t have a lib64 folder with my CUDA install and I don’t know how to get this in OS X or point it elsewhere. Whats the trick? All the linux folks seem to be using it and leaving us in the dust!

There is a donate button toward the top of the page to send BTC to my Coinbase account. Thanks!

Alex
on May 19, 2014 at 10:48 am

Hi John and thanks for replying. Christian hasn’t released this patch under a new version, he has left the release number as 1.0. Yet, on May 14 he submitted a new commit with the patch. Please see here for further info:

Hi John – CudaMiner 10.9 for OSX you compiled works fine for me on my MacPro 2.26 with GTX590 card. Runs at (Keccak) 126,000 total (63200 each side of card) and with -l F32x12,F32x12 setting gives 240Mhs at Pool I’m mining in. -Excellent.

One thing though is I want to mine X11 and CCMiner simply will not run for me with same system – keeps giving me image not found and ” Reason: image not found

Trace/BPT trap: 5″

Error messages – Any ideas or can you compile X11 into Cudaminer as that works beautifully.

Thanks again as I tried to mine scrypt with my mac gpu previously using other programs without any great success – either not working or running much too slow.

having a hard time changing settings for x11 mining. Which file do you modify to get this to work? I click on the ccminer and it errors out about heavy coin needing a vote and I am not understanding the readme to get this to work on my macpro. Can you give some help please.

Thanks for all you are doing for us and your continuous patience putting up with the so many requests you receive.

Now that OS X Yosemite 10.10 Public beta is out, I am using this system which I already find stable enough for my daily use of the Mac.

When launching ccminer (which was already there fully working before I updated the system to 10.10) from Yosemite I get this error message… perhaps you could shed some light, please (I have blanked out private data)?

I had a problem with my GTX970 after updating drivers a few weeks ago and thought I should post my solution. My 970 was returning “Segmentation Fault 11” while my 750 kept working. I found that there is right now an additional CUDA driver just for the 970 and 980 cards.

This is listed as 6.5.27, but does not include the actual driver which requires up or backdating to 6.5.32.

This CUDA driver just for the big Maxwell cards is the first support whatsoever of these on the Mac that Nvidia has put in writing, so I guess thats good. I’d also like to add that I’d still love a Yosemite build of the early 1.0 ccminer because it uses so little overhead, and sorry for my double post.

Hello, I have been using your ccMiner build for OSX and love it! However, newer forks of ccMiner have come out that have increased hashrates and I would like to try to use these new forks. I am having trouble compiling on OSX and was wondering if you possibly knew the solution to the errors I am getting.

I am using this fork: github.com/sp-hash/ccminer

I have XCode 6.4 installed along with MacPorts. When I build I get this: